So-called ‘unfilmable books’ simply don’t have the proper story structure conducive to an interesting movie, the popular aura around a book being ‘too violent’ or ‘too complex’ or saying the niggerword too much is just misguided and dumb.Basedtuber Video-Essay Meridian (Or the Evening Redditness in the West) is probably just the most notable example. The first two pages alone would require at least 45 minutes of screen time for what amounts to really boring character exposition for The Kid in a visual format. The book doesn’t give a good motive or reason for his actions other than ‘he just felt like killing’ because it doesn’t have to, a script would have to shoehorn something entirely novel and likely summarize it as a whole.There’s a few scenes that could possibly translate well to film (Judge’s introduction with the preacher, Captain White’s excursion, any of the big battles, Judge’s speeches, the ending) but 2/3’s of the book is just the gang putzing through random landmarks and surviving in the desert for no real operative purpose, interrupted with some scalp hunting. Members also just die anticlimactically to little drama or fanfare, which makes sense in the book but wouldn’t translate to screen (with the ferry massacre as a possible exception).Cramming everything into a <150min film and somehow incorporating a through-line plot that doesn’t butcher the book and ties into the actual ending is what the ‘Unfilmable’ aspect is, not the Tarantino-style violence required on screen.Juxtapose BM with No Country For Old Men and you can easily tell the latter was written with a movie script in mind. McCarthy was a nobody writer when he wrote BM so he likely never would’ve expected (or even wanted) it pitched for a film. It’s simply that trannygoon and his basedtuber-ilk did irreparable damage to the reputation and aura of an otherwise interesting novel by a pretty good American storyteller.
This retard really wrote this whole ass post just to say unfilmable books are unfilmable. NIGGER, it's in the name.
My favorite McCarthy book? The Evening Redness in the West, of course!
>>25299906>‘Unfilmable Books’ would just make terrible moviesYes? You thought you were onto something with this, retard?
>>25299981>>25299997I’ve never heard anyone søyjacking over ‘unfilmable’ books ever mention it being due to plot structure or writing style, it’s always because it’s ’too violent’ or ‘too complex’ which is what contributes to the redditfication aura behind books like BM. That’s the point here.
>>25300164>I’ve never heard anyone søyjacking over ‘unfilmable’ books ever mention it being due to plot structure or writing styleyou have to be 18 to use this website
Turn Swan Song into an 8-part HBO miniseries
>>25300164>too complex somehow doesn't encompass plot structure and writing styleSeek help.
Blood Meridian has more or less the same problems as Catcher in the Rye in that both are considered unfilmable books because they're about meandering mentally unstable assholes aimlessly hurting themselves and the people around them.They're basically A Clockwork Orange but without the competent social commentary.
>>25300204That said you could fix them by just giving them a B plot like in No Country for Old Men.
>>25300192>too complex somehow doesn't encompass plot structure and writing styleIt doesn’t always, Science Fiction is an entire genre built on complex worldbuilding plots in books and never typically has an issue being translated onto screen. The ‘too complex’ accusation of ‘unfilmable’ books is typically levied at Gravity’s Rainbow or Infinite Jest, which were never written to be through-line plots in a script regardless.My point is that ‘unfilmable’ has just become a buzzword for upvotes and video-essays on certain popular books for dumb incoherent justifications instead of very obvious ones that won’t easily grab attention and generate ad-revenue.
>>25300243>It doesn’t always, Science Fiction is an entire genre built on complex worldbuilding plots in books and never typically has an issue being translated onto screenDo you know what the word too means? I don't think you do.
>>25300293>Do you know what the word too means? I don't think you do.‘Too’ is the poor subjective framing levied by the exact people I’m mentioning in this argument. Dune, Blade Runner, or even Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy could be considered ‘too complex’ in comparison to Catcher in the Rye yet only one is ‘unfilmable’ by their plot structure/writing style.
/lit/ is allowed to slum it and post on /tv/ but /tv/ should know better than to post on /lit/.
>>25299906Dune and Watchmen should've never been made into movies. Both books have extremely basic structures that everyone's seen 1000 times and are mainly popular because they have god-tier dialogue and promote certain subversive concepts. They're books writers like, not readers or at least not readers above a middle school reading level. I don't hate Dune 1984 and it has an amazing cast but it's so boring.
>>25300409Also now anytime someone brings up the film version of Dune or Watchmen people say shit like "dude the movie was boring, the book was better" as a way to shift blame for the original story being boring onto the people that had to adapt it.
>>25300321HGttG is unfilmable. That's why the film flopped and no sequels were made.
>>25299906Honestly, most of these unfilmable books would require very normie-unfriendly stylistic filmmaking; possibly experimental filmmaking.The sort of kino that instantly immolates normies.It's not easy entertainment? It's not emotionally comforting? Waaaaa
>>25299906Dark Triad is going to make a beautiful movie. I hope you guys have all read it.
The only way to do justice to Blood meridian would be to use its figurative language literally. That is to say when a tent blowing in the wind is compared to an angry Goddess' skirt, you show it stoically to be an angry Goddess' skirt. Only then will it work, otherwise Holden ends up looking like a complete good talking about irrelevant things. It works in the book because of Mccarthy's language and in books metaphors are readily accepted as normal.
>>25300577*complete goof
An actual, real, proper adaptation of 120 Days of Sodom is unlikely to get past any censors, especially if they have the balls to expand on the list of ideas at the endRendezvous with Rama could've worked back then but I think any modern attempt at a film would ruin itRed Mars because it isn't a le heckin wholesome diverse LGBTABCOMGWTFBBQ+ paradise
>>25299906Blood Meridian is unfilmable because McCarthy was atrocious at writing characters and characters are the most conspicuous elements in a movie. They would seem like jokes, edgelords closer to cartoon characters than real people.
I think House of Leaves could be turned into a film if the right people were behind it, hell it's possible the Matryoska feeling of the plots within plots could be done competently. It would take a hell of a director and screenwriter to do it, though. Maybe Denis Villeneuve.
Short stories make good movies. Novels require a mini-series. It's as simple as that.
>>25299906Blood Meridian isn't that complicated. It would work just fine if it got filmed like a traditional western. I bet Sam Raimi could pull it off.
I think Gombrowicz is unfilmable in any meaningful way, though I haven't seen Zulawski's Cosmos yet and I'm not sure I want to.
>>25300425But it makes a great radio play. Maybe Blood Meridian could be a radio play?
You can absolutely film "unfilmable books" as long as you change enough shit so it translates to the screen.That's why people use the word "adaptation" when talking about turning a book into a movie. It's just a transfer from one medium into another of a concept or idea.
is if on a winter’s night a traveler unfilmable? or is second person just like a found footage movie or something? I always thought found footage was like the equivalent of an epistolary novel. maybe second person is equivalent to a pov shot, something like hardcore henry
